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Show • No CR. 0 5 S, Jlo C R 0 W N. VoL. I. 326 ' 668 Man now of late Tears alfJQRSft 1/J_, w7JQ tbinlu it mu~b, qr t't[ufet~ t_o fub~ · 1 • fcribe bi/nfel[ Servinr, ibo' 11 he to bis ~qual or Infen.o~. Y ~t Sulpu~tlll Se .. ~ {h 1 chid by Paulinllt for fubfcnbiJlg hunfulfbn Scr. ~· IX. veru: ~as ~~~er d"hfs faying Take Hr}d' bertnfter, bpw thou being JroJtt :vf,a g' ma 11 a· 1 Libtrty d~ft fulifcribe ti!J}e/fScrV'j.nt .unto oo~,tvboit e~;~";;::nd fefotP-serv:ni; f or it ira Sinj11l F/11~ter]t nQI,• TefllmO'II.f of H.'Y "fj boje Honours to a ,41a)1, and a Smner, wbidJ are dztJWo humpty, '"J.~Y dt ·0•• t one r , an .. .t•n• ter • ,•. nd o~e yo~. This B. ijbop was (as it f,e ems) otCbtJ.;"Mi d, TV,hy cope thou J111 Cioodl 'J}Iere "none .Good b.uone. B this we m~'y fee, rlje Senfe of fqme of the mote Apoftohcal Btlbops, l • · h c· 'l' · an~ Fajhiont fo much reputed wnh People that call :houf:l:escbriJlf;., and IJifbop;, 'II!d who would be thought their Succef. raff 'Twas then a Sin, 'tis (lOW ~m Accomplifomtnt? ~W3S then a Flater , 'tis now Rcfpefl; 'Twas then fit to be fev.erely ~eprovrd ; and n?\V :lla{, ic is to deferve fevere Reproof not to ufe a. 0 mon_jl~o1u V~nlfy, H h ~0\'1 deeply have t~9fe wlto ~recalled C/Jrijlram rc'olted fr~~ ~~'Pi::tinnefs of th; ~rimhive Days, and Erl1.8:ice of~ ofy Men :l nd Women in former Ages? How are they become ~egencrated Into the loo fe, prond and wanton Cufioii)s-of 'he World, whtch kn~ws nbt God ; to whom Uje hath m1de thefe Thing~ condemned l\)' Scr;pture, Retifon and Ex pl altnofi Natural? And fo mfenfibte are they of both thetr Caufe a11dbad'E.ffelli, that they not oply con~inue to praEl:ife them, but p~e:t~ for them. and Unchri,{tianly make a very Moc.k of thofe who cannot .1m.t· tate them. B~rn I fhal1 proceed to what rem~tns yet further to be fa1d tn our Defence, for declinin.g another C.11Jlom, ~htch helps to make usfo much the StMmbling-Block of this light, vam, and mconfiderate Age. CHAP. X. § 1 .A71otber Piece Df Non-Conformity to tbe World, which U Dar Rimple 'and Plain Speec:h, Thou for You. §. 2· ~Nftifitd from tbe 1Jfe of W~rds 4nd l':iombm, Singular 4,d Plural. S· 3• Jr wM, 411d ;, rk Hebre~, Greek, 4114 Lat•_n .sputl!, m Sr/JHb 4nd 1J¥ivt:,jilits. S· 4- It ;, rk WgJUgt of •U N•uom. S· 'S•. 1~ Or1gtnd .of r~ prrfrnJ Cuftom d~fen4s "" Dif11fo of ir. §. 6. If t.uftom fl!ould prnwl, 11111 Se•f~ u wouU b~ •• s·de § 7 Itt.cnnoJ be Uncivil or Improper; JorGod Himfelf, the Fathers, Prophets t:'hriftb4 His i..poftles ujed it. ~. 's. A• lttjl.c'lttegumr inrbe care of Peter, in ybe P.cltre 4 tbe High Prieft. §. 9• Jr ;,r&P,.Rire•f" Mento GH in1kir~raye~s: ~ht !'fl~tof~ u txpdf Better ro 6i•Jelf, S· 10. !tftiponits. of feyeral \Yntr:rs m Ymdmmon of • .§. 11, 7k Author'• Cotwi/Jimr; ud bu Eikrmtonto6u Reader. §. I. THere is another Piece of our Non-Gonformiry to the W ~~ld, that renders us very CIDwnifh to the Breeding ofn, and that ts.' 'I(J.Ou for IOU, and that without DifFerence or RefpeEt t_o ,Perfons :. A Thmg that to fame looks fo tude, it C3Qnot ~ell go down wtth?u.t Deri.(ion or Wrfltb. l3:ut as we have the fame Original Reafon for dechmng. th1s, a~ the fore. gOing Cuftoms, fo 1 fhall add, wh:J.t ~o me Ioo:t<s ~calpnable m our Defence, though it is very prob;;tble, He1gbt of. MmJ, m fame of thofe tbat bl~me us, will very h.ardly allow them .to helte~e •. that the Word Reafona• $ie is reconcileable wuh fo filly a Praatce as th1s Is efteemed. d · §. II. Words of themfelves, ar• but as fo many Marks fet and employe for necefi'ary and intelligible .1)1ediums, or Me:1ns, whereby Men may under- , fiA.ndingly exprcfs their Minds and Conceptions to eac~ 9thcr.; from whenc: cp.mes Converfation. Now, thou$ the World be dtv1ded Into many Na tt9ns each of which, for the moifPart, have a pecnlilr ~:lnguage, Speech, ()r DialcEt yet have they ever concurred in the fame Nu111brrs and Pcrfo~~' :&s much of the Ground of Right Speuh. For infra nee, I love, Thou ~ovtp, Helqvctb, are .Qf th_e Sin,gular Number, importing but 017e, whether m th£ Firjf, Second, or Tb,rd Perfon: Alfo We I::ovt, Te lAve, They Love,. are o the P/ural .Number, beCJufc in ~ach i.s implied n;lore than One. Whtch un~ tieniablc Grnm"'fltir•f 'ljf!.lt, m~ht be enough .to f~tiific 4J1Y, th:J.t haf!r~~~ VoL. I. No CROSS, No CROWN. . forgot their Auidence, that we are not befide Re:1fon in our PraUice. F6r if Thou Loveft, be Singular, and To11 Love_. ~e Plural; and if Thou Lovej1, fignifies but One ; and Tou Love, Many ; IS lt not as proper to f:1y, Thou lovell, to Ten Men, as to fay, You Love, to One Man? Or, \Vhy not I Love, for We Love, and We Love, iriftead of I Love? Douhtlefs it is the fame, though moft )mprDper, and in Speech Ridiculo11s. §. III. Our ntxt Reafon is ; if it be Improper or Uncivil Speech (as termed by this vain Age) how comes it, thu the Hebrew, Greek, and R'J11111h Authors, ufed in Schools and Univerjities, have no other? Why lhould they not be a Rule in that, as weB as other Things? And why, I pray, then are we fo Ridiculous for being thus far Grammatical? Is it ReafOnabfe rhat Cbi/Jren fuould be Whipr at School for putting You for Thou, as having made Ffl!je Latin, and yet that we rnuft be, tho' not Whipt, Reproached, and bften Abu fed, when we ufe the contr:J.ry Propriuy of Spucb ? §. IV. But in the Third Place, it is neither improper nor Uncivil, but much otherwife J becaufe it i• ufed in all Languages, Speeches, :1nd Di:1leEl:s, and th:J.t through all Ages. This is very pl:J.in: As for Example, It wa~ God's Language when he firft fpake to Adam, viz. Hebrew: Alfo it is the Affyrian, Chaldtan, Grecian, and Lhtin Speecb. And now amongfi the 7Nrlu, Tartars, Mufiovites, Indians, Perjians, Italians, Spaniardf, Funcb, Dutch, Germans, PoloRianf, Sweder, Danu, Irifo, Scottijh, Welch, as well as Englijh, there is a DifiinEl:ion prefervcd ; and the \:V ord Tho11, is not loft in the Word which goes for Tou. And though fome of the Modern Tongues have done as we do, yet upon the fame Error. But by rhis 'tis plain, that Thou is no Upftart, nor yet improper; but the only proper Word to be ufed in all Languages to a Single Pcrfon; becaufe otherwife :10 Sentences, Speech_.. es, and Difcourfes rn:1y be very arnbiguous7 uncertain, and Equivocll. !f a ]11ry_ pronounce a Verdifl7 or a Judge a Selitence (Three beiog ·ar the Bttr upon Three Occfljioni, very differemlr culp:1ble) and !hould fay, You are here Guilty, and to Dye, or Innocent and Difcbarg'd; who knows who is Guilty· ()r Innocent? May be but Ont7 perhaps Tmo; or it may be :11l T/lret.i Therefore our IndiEl:ments run in the Singular Number, as Hold up Thy Hand: Thou art Indi9ed by the Name o/, &c. for that Thou, not bavmg tht Fear af God, &c. And it holds rhe fame in aU Comerfation. Nor can this be avoided but by many unnecefi'ary Circumlocurions. And as the prevent· ing of fuch Length and Obfcurity was doubtlefs rhc Firlt Reafon for thC' DiftinEtion, fo cannot that be juftly c!ifufed, til1 the Reafon be fuft rerno~ ved; which can never be wbilft Two are in the \Vorld. r668. ~ Chap. X.. §. V. Butthis is not alL It was fir!\ afcribed in W3y of Flattery to proud Pope~ and Emperor!; imitating the Heathens vain Homage to their Gods, thereby ~fcribing a Plural Honour to a Single PerJon ; as if One PDpe had "been made up of Many GDdf, and Ont Emperor of Many Men. For whicli Reafon, You, only to be ufed to Many, bec::utte .firft fpoKen toOne. lt feems the Word Thou, look't like too lean flnd thin a Re[pe8; and therefore, foma' Bigger than they (hould be, would ha-ve a Stile fJiitdhle to their own ilmbi ... tion : A Ground we cannot b_uild our PraEl:i'ce on; for what begun it, only loves it ftill. But fuppofing_You to De proper to a Prince, it will not follo"Y it is to a common Perfon. For hi.s Edict runs, We WiD and Require, becaufc perh:1ps in Conjun[/ion with his Council t and therefore Tou to a Privflte Ptr .. • Jon, is an Abufe of the Word. But as Pride firft gave it Birrh1 fo hath She only ptomoted it. "f. .Monfieur, Sir, and Madam, wer~. Originally, NiJ.mes * H0tftl~ given to none but the King, his Brother, :1nd their Wives, both in Frnn~e f/~. of and England; yet now the Plov:-Man in France ircalled MMfieur, and h!s Wife, Madam: And Men of ordinary Trades in Eng!tmd, Sir, an~ thel[ Wives, Dame; (which is the Legal Title of a Lady) or elfi: l)liflrift, which is the fame with Madam in French. So ·prevalent bar~ PrJd~ and Flflttery been in :11l Ages, the one to Give} :1nd the orher to rtcerv~ Rrfpetl, as they term it. §. VI. But fome will tell us, Cuflom jhould R~k"" 1 ond tbat .;, og~i~fl 11s. Bur it is eafily anfwered, and more truly • That rh·ough tn Thmg.r 'Jl · Reofomrbll |